Summer is winding down, and we just have two TGIF picnics left this year.  This Friday, July 30 and next week, August 6, will feature both day and night parties so everyone can come out and enjoy the fun. With great local restaurants, bands and movies from the Library, you’re sure to have a blast!

Friday, July 30
11am-2pm: food by Rail Grill
11-Noon: Radio Disney AM 1300
12pm-2pm: Bobby Dun Band

6pm-8pm: food by Rail Grill
Eddie Korosa Jr Band
8pm: family movies – “Goonies”
Sponsored by Great Lakes Bank

Friday, August 6
11am-2pm: food by Tenochtitlan
11-Noon: Radio Disney AM 1300
12pm-2pm: Lasting Impressions (Band)

4pm-8pm: TASTE OF BLUE ISLAND
Food by: Beggar’s Pizza, Double Play, Giuseppe’s, Islands Café, MetroSouth Café, Pablo’s, Salvation Army & Tenochtitlan
4p-6pm: Money Shot Band
6pm-8pm: Mudcats Band
Sponsored by Coalition Party
8pm: family movies – “ET”

Did you bike to work today in Blue Island?

In recognition of Active Transportation Alliance’s Bike to Work Week, the City of Blue Island is supporting two-wheeled commutes to City Hall, and encourages everyone that lives in Blue Island to try biking to work – or to the train station! – from June 12-18.

Cyclists from Building & Zoning, Community Development, and the Marketing Department are joined by riders from the Blue Island Fire Department, Blue Island Public Library, and the Blue Island Park District! Let us know if you’re riding too!!

Each day you ride to work in Blue Island, check in with Marketing Director Mary Poulsen. Every ride earns a chance at our Friday raffle for a “tools of the road” kit and Active Transportation membership. And every rider on the City’s team receives a “swag bag” of goodies thanks to the helpful folks at Blue City Cycles, 3201 S Halsted Street in Chicago (Bridgeport). We love independently owned businesses!

Fay's Point, Blue Island 2010 Green Ribbon Award Winner

Congratulations to Fay’s Point, LLC, OKW Architects, Inc and partners, on their recent Green Ribbon Award from Friends of the Chicago River in the 1st Annual Blue Ribbon Awards.

1 of 7 inaugural winners, Fay’s Point was recognized “as an excellent example of how residential development can utilize the river to enhance the quality of life for the residents— wild and human alike”.

The Blue Ribbon Awards, which ”recognize environmental leaders and the ecological precedents they set”, are part of the Friends’ new Chicago River Blue program that educates, encourages, and rewards river-sensitive developments and redevelopments that take people, wildlife, and clean water into account.  Chicago River Blue provides guidelines, ideas, examples, vendors, on-line resources, and an annual award to make sensitive river-edge development accessible to everyone.  Download the Press Release

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